Hair-waving pad



Dec. 27, 1927. 1,653,841

H. W. CARLOUGH HAIR WAVING PAD Filed June 28. 1926 INVENTOR wm ifiATTORNEY ilar structures now on the market in that.

Patented Dec. 27, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFicE.

HOWABD W CABLOUGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOB TO KEEN WAVING GOKPANY,INCORPORATED, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK. i

HAIR-WAVEG- PAD.

The invention relates in general to an improved form of combination padfor use in treating and protecting the hair While practising the art ofpermanent hair waving, which pads are commonly lniown as steam pads andthe invention also relates to a method for using such pads.

In the art of permanent hair waving on a persons head, it is a usualpractise to wrap a strand of hair A on a rod B; to protect the coiledhair with certain substances usually amixture of saline powdershereinafter referred to as a hair treating material and which materialis most conveniently contained in a prepared pad known as a steampad.,The coil ofhair thus protected by the steam pad is wetted, inserted in atubular electric heater and subjected to a steaming "process. Inaccordance with the present practise, it is usualto wet the padcontaining the hair treating material but difliculty has beenexperienced in preventing drippings from passing out of the heater andas these drippings become quite hot as the waving operation progressesthere is danger of burning the head of the person whose hair is beingwaved.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a form of steam padwhich will have all of the advantages inherent in simit can be formed asan envelope containing a-layer of material saturated with the hairtreating substance and which will have the additional advantage ofpreventing drippings from the wetted material or incidental steamcondensates from passing out of the heater on to the scalp of theperson.

Broadly, this object is attained, first by providin so that t e coversheet, which subsequently forms the envelop, can be held out of thewater or lotion used for wetting the interior material containing sheetand, second, by the positioning of an absorbent pad or layer at the endof the pad which when in position forms the end part of the tubedisposed adjacent the persons head.

Various other objects and advantages of v a booklike form of padarranged the invention will be obvious from a cons deration of thereferred method of practising the invention hereinafter described andfrom an inspection of the accompanying drawings and in part will be morefully set forth in the following particular description of one methodand of one'form of apparatus for practising the method'and the inventionalso consists in certain new and novel operations and features ofconstruc-- Fig. 3 is a perspective view with the pad in use on a coilofhair and with parts of the tube formed of the pad shown in Figs. 1 and2 broken away to show the rolled construction.

In the following description and in the claims, parts will be identifiedby specific names for convenience of expression but they are intended tobe as generic in their application to similar parts as the art willpermit.

The pad as particularly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises one or moreflexible layers of material, preferably cotton, assembled into a sheet10 and im regnated with or containing compositions or treating the hairand which structure is of conventional and well known character.Positioned on one side of the sheet 10 when in the flat position shownin Fig. 1 is a rectangular sheet of paper 11, approximately twice thesize of the area of the sheet 10 so as topro-- vide an extension or flap12 projecting beyond one of the edges 13' of the sheet- 10.

The structure herein 'disclosed distin u-ishes from similar-structuresin that the s eet-1 0 and along a medial line 16 thus permitting thedipping of the sheet into a bowl of water or other liquid without soakmgthe paper envelop forming part. Whenwetted the paper sheet 11 is bent inreverse direction along the line 16 and into engagement with the wettedsheet 10 to form a pad resembling conventional forms of such structuresexcept tionally wetted 7 material 17 as particularly shown in Fi 1.

- that care is taken that the that the outer aper envelop is notintenfore the pad is rolled into tubular form about the hair coil A.

Secured along the side of the paper to which the sheet 10 is secured isa strip of absorbent material referably cotton flannel 17. This issecured by means of a line of stitching 18 and is preferably disposed soas to extend slightly beyond the adjacent edge of the paper. It will benoted that in wetting the sheet'lO, the absorbent layer 17 was held outof engagement with the wetting material and in this way the dryabsorbent v Help 17 is available and in condition to receive any surplusdrip which may pass oil. the sheet 10 when the device is in use. It isherein su gested that the absorbent'material 17. an the sheet 10 bedesigned and positioned so that they overlap for a shortdistance when inuse. This arrangement has a tendency to dry the sheet 10 along the edge19 when in engagement with the absorbent The pad thus disclosed .andwith the flap 12 engaging the adjacent side of the wetted sheet 10 iswrapped about the coiled hair .A as is usual in the use of such padsexcept end provided with absorbent material 17 be disposed adjacent thehead of the person whose hair is being waved. When so positioned, aheater .C is positioned on the tube formed by the pad and the hairwaving operation is performed as is usual in this art.

By means of a device of the class described, it is ossible to thoroughlysaturate the part of t e ad which contains the hair treating materialwithout soaking the paper envelop with resulting possibility of it deteriorating or tearing when an attempt is made to wrap' it about thecoil of hair. When in position, the absorbent layer at the end of thetube has been found to be a sufiicient insurance against possibility ofdrip pings leaking off of the end of the pad adacent the persons headand there has thus been eliminated the possibility of accidentallyburning the head of the person under treatment.

While I have shown and described, and b have pointed outin the annexedclaims, certain novel features of my invention, it will be understoodthat various omissions, substitutions and changes in the form anddetails of the device illustrated and in its operation may be made bythose skilled m t e art without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A pad for use in covering a coil of banin practising the art ofpermanent hair waving comprising a sheetof paper adapted to be foldedalong a central line to formiopposite sides of an envelop, a layer ofhair protecting material hingedly secured along one edge to the sheet ofpaper and along a line parallel to and adjacent said folding centralline thereby to form in effect a book of three sheets comprising twoouter paper sheets and an intermediate sheet.

2. A pad for use in permanent hair waving comprising an outer sheet, alayer of hair treating material secured along one edge to the sheet andotherwise free to swing away from the same whereby the layer may bewetted without wetting the sheet.

3. A pad for use in permanent hair waving comprising an outer papersheet, a layer of hair treating material secured along one edge to thepaper layer and otherwise free to swing away from the same whereby thelayer may be wetted without wetting the paper layer and absorbent meanscarried by the paper layer adapted to engage one edge of the hairtreating layer for absorbing any drip from the same when the pad is inuse.

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4. A pad for use in ermanent hair wavmgcomprising a base ayer, a layerof hair treating material secured thereto and adapted to be wetted and alayer of absorbent material secured to the base layer and adapted tocatch drip from the wet layer when the pad is in use.

5. A pad for use in hair waving comprising a layer of paper, a padelement carried by the paper layer and adapted to be swung away the padelement without wetting the paper and a layer of absorbent materialsecured to the paper at one edge thereof and adapted to be heldtherewith out of contact with the pad element while the same is beingwetted. 6. a pad for use in hair waving comprismg a layer of paper, apad element carried by the paper layer and adapted to beswung away fromthe same to permit wetting of the pad element without wetting the paper.

7 An article of manufacture constituting a fiat flexible pad adapted tobe wrapped about a coil ofh air in the process of wav the hair, andcompris' a layer of chemically treated material ida'pted to be wettedwhen pre ared for use, and a strip of flexile absor t, material forpreventing dri from the pad while in use, said layer an from the same topermit wetting of strip being separable before the pad is applied to thehair whereby the strip of absorbent material may be temporarily re movedfrom the chemically treated layer while the latter is being wetted.

8. A pad for use in waving hair including means adapted to be Wetted,absorbent means for preventing drip from said pad while in use and meansfor securing said first two mentioned means to each other.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,this 14th day of June, A. D. 1926.

HOWARD W. CARLOUGH.

